The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-09-21
ANARCHISTS MUST DIE.
Decision of the Lower Courts affirm
ed-The Execution to Take Place
November H.

OeCiSton Of tne Lower courts dIriFU'
ed-The Execution to Take Place
November H.
CHICAGO, Sept. l5-It is just announced
that the Illirnis supreme court, now in ses-
sion at Ottawa, has affirmed the judgement
of the lower court which condemned the cum
victed anarchists to the gallows. the news
was received with intense interest IN this
city and thousands are reading the bulletin
boards of the newspapers
At $50 Justice Magruder began the an
nouncement of the decision in the anarchists
case.
The court announced: = In this case the
judgment IN the court below is affirmed as
to all, and as to each and every one Of the
defendants. An opinion has been prepared
setting forth the reasons of the affirmation
of the judgment The opinion is now han
ded to the clerk to be fled
The opinion referred to was written by
Justice Magruder. who comes from the Chi
cogo district. The opinion covers 80 pages
of closely written manuscript, and contains
$500 words. 1t is undoubtedly the most
important decision the Illinois supreme court
has ever been called upon 10 give. Lawyers
say that the document is an able exposition
of the law and its previous interpretations
by eminent American jurists In this work
Justice Magruder was ably assisted by each
of the six other distinguished Judges, who
made him their spokesman and through
him expressed their unanimous decision
Chief Justice Sheldon then announced
that he concurred in the opinion. Before pro-
nouncing sentence, however, he called upon
Justice Milkey, who rose aud said
q 1t is not my intention TO offer separate
opinion. as | should have done. desire 10
avail myself of this occasion to say that
while | concur in the conclusions reached
as also i'll the general views rs entered in the
opinion filed. do not wish to be understood
as holding that the record is free from error
of the opinion, that none of the errors com
planned of is of such serious character as to
require reversal of the judgment. In view
of the number of defendants on trial, the
great length of time consumed in the trial,
the vast amount of testimony offered and
passed upon by the court, and the almost
numberless rulings the court was required 10
make, the wonderment To me is that the er
rors were not more numerous and of more
serious character than they are. In short,
after having fully examined the record and
given the questions arising on il my best
thought, with an earnest and conscientious
desire to faithfully discharge my duty, am
fully satisfied that the opinion reached vim
dieates the law and does complete justice be-
tween the people of the state and the defend
ants, fully warranted by the law and the
evidence
Chief Justice sheldon then announced the
formal sentence, as follows:
" In this case, the court orders that the
sentence of the superior court of Cook coun-
ty, of the defendants in the indictment-Au
gust Spies, Samuel Fielden, X Parsons.
Adolph Fisher, Engle and Louis Linng-be
carried into effect by the sheriff of Cook
county, on the llth day of November next,
on Friday, between the hours Of 10 O'Clock,
forenoon and o'clock afternoon. on that
day"
The judgment of the court was unani-
nous.
THEY LEARN or THEIR DOOM.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-THE first official
information that reached this city of the de-
cision in the case of the anarchists was tel
Il.
state attorneys office here. II read
Anarchist cases affirmed execution No
vember IL
Mr. Purcell, of the state attorneys office,
ran at once to the Jail with the despatch
Following ON his heels was messenger car
rying telegram for August Spies that had
been sent from Ottawa bv an agent of the
anarchists. The turnkey who took the des-
patch to cell No. % and showed it through
the bars fingered a moment 10 watch the ef-
feet it would have on Spies.
The anarchist took the message, glanced
firmly at the turnkey, and then withdrew TO
the darker end of the cell. In two minutes
or SO he called gently TO the old man who sits
as death watch outside his barred door, and
asked him to hand the yellow telegraph
sheet to Parsons From him it went to all
the Others and at last reached Neebe. who is
only under sentence of Imprisonment
Newspaper men haye been vigorously shut
out from the condemned men, and all obser-
vations had to be taken from the ontside of
the cage, about ten yards from the cell door
1t could be dimly seen that each of the CON
demned men made ostentatious efforts at
coolness and bravado. They took seats at
their cell doors, and read newspapers and
books, smoked cigars, and once Lining, the
bomb maker, whistled.
Their wives and friends had been with
them for an hour during the morning but
about thirty minutes before the news came
they were all excluded and the prisoners
locked up, each by himself.